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See our posts on the most important topics in and around website design - from commissioning your own website to sustainability and accessibility, we cover the things that are important to you and to us.

A cold, bright week in Nottingham's Lace Market
Lunchtimes this week meant putting on a warm overcoat and walking around Nottingham's beautiful Lace Market - all the photos here were within 200m of our office. The November shadows are so beautiful, the pictures almost took themelves.
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Why does the internet keep falling apart?! (…and why outages at AWS and Cloudflare take half the web down with them)
In the last few weeks we’ve seen outages from AWS and Cloudflare make huge parts of the internet suddenly… vanish. Not because someone kicked a cable out of the wall, but because of how deeply interconnected modern digital infrastructure really is.
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The next 25 years of web design – 4 trends which will shape the future
As we celebrate 25 years of pushing the boundaries in web design, it’s incredible to look back at how far the industry has come since Volute was founded in 1999. You can see Tim’s blog post on some of Volute’s first websites and the state of the early web. From the early days of basic HTML pages to the dynamic, interactive, and personalised website
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Looking back over 25 years: a series of firsts
Our MD, Tim Ryan, looks back over the 25 years of Volute in the first of series of blog articles looking at how the technology and web has changed in the last quarter of a century and how Volute's offerings have responded to these.
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Major award marks Volute’s contribution to cancer nursing care
A new learning management system we developed for the East Midlands Cancer Alliance - Aspirant Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Development Programme - has won the 2024 East Midlands Chamber of Commerce award for ‘Excellence in Collaboration’, with the awards ceremony being held in Nottingham.
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The Volute team in our Lace Market Studio
We are 25 years old!
Did you know that Volute was set up at the dawn of the internet? We are now celebrating our 25th anniversary this month (October 2024). Volute was set up in 1999 at the founder Tim Ryan’s West Bridgford home but has grown over the years, now based in the city’s Lace Market area, with a team of creative and technical experts. The company’s foundation came only eight years after the internet arrived in 1991 when Sir Tim Berners-Lee published the first-ever website.
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